The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil WarDavid Brion Davis, Steven Mintz Oxford University Press, 1998 M10 15 - 608 páginas Drawing on a gold mine of primary documents--including letters, diary entries, personal narratives, political speeches, broadsides, trial transcripts, and contemporary newspaper articles--The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the past to life in a way few histories ever do. Here is a panoramic look at early American history as captured in the words of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and many other historical figures, both famous and obscure. In these pieces, the living voices of the past speak to us from opposing viewpoints--from the vantage point of loyalists as well as patriots, slaves as well as masters. The documents collected here provide a fuller understanding of such historical issues as Columbus's dealings with Native Americans, the Stamp Act Crisis, the Declaration of Independence, the Whiskey Rebellion, the Missouri Crisis, the Mexican War, and Harpers Ferry, to name but a few. Compiled by Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz, and accompanied by extensive illustrations of original documents, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the reader back in time, to meet the men and women who lived through the momentous events that shaped our nation. |
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... important than a perfect free trade " 274 Robert Fulton , April 14 , 1798 The Quasi - War with France and the XYZ Affair 275 49. " It would be both just and proper to declare the treaty with France to be void " 275 John Jay , June 25 ...
... important than a perfect free trade " 274 Robert Fulton , April 14 , 1798 The Quasi - War with France and the XYZ Affair 275 49. " It would be both just and proper to declare the treaty with France to be void " 275 John Jay , June 25 ...
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... important , as we learn to listen to these voices we gain a growing sense of the complex- ity and contingency of past events . How different would America be today if the British had defeated the Americans in their struggle for ...
... important , as we learn to listen to these voices we gain a growing sense of the complex- ity and contingency of past events . How different would America be today if the British had defeated the Americans in their struggle for ...
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... importance of the subject , we have selected forty - eight doc- uments for Part Five , " The Age of Revolution , 1765-1783 . " Along with such well- known subjects as British taxation of the colonists , the Boston Massacre and Tea party ...
... importance of the subject , we have selected forty - eight doc- uments for Part Five , " The Age of Revolution , 1765-1783 . " Along with such well- known subjects as British taxation of the colonists , the Boston Massacre and Tea party ...
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... important changes could move only at a glacially slow pace . As historians looked backward in time , it became increasingly difficult to comprehend sudden revolu- tionary transformations . But then beginning in 1989 , the Soviet empire ...
... important changes could move only at a glacially slow pace . As historians looked backward in time , it became increasingly difficult to comprehend sudden revolu- tionary transformations . But then beginning in 1989 , the Soviet empire ...
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... important has it also been as a means of unification ? Of course , racial categories are no less real even when deprived of biological sub- stance . Like serfdom , social castes , and royal or noble " blood , " concepts of race ...
... important has it also been as a means of unification ? Of course , racial categories are no less real even when deprived of biological sub- stance . Like serfdom , social castes , and royal or noble " blood , " concepts of race ...
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PART 2 EUROPEAN COLONIZATION NORTH OF MEXICO | 43 |
PART 3 A LAND OF CONTRASTS | 85 |
PART 4 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR | 123 |
PART 5 THE AGE OF REVOLUTION 17651825 | 139 |
PART 6 CREATING A NEW NATION | 211 |
PART 7 ANTEBELLUM AMERICA | 323 |
PART 8 CIVIL WAR | 501 |
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